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Here’s a crazy idea: make it easy to vote.

Today’s Republicans — though they claim the mantle of patriotism — only pretend to be for that.

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn.

So what to do?

It’s not at all clear — just urgent.

Having sensible, competent leadership may not be enough to navigate these waters.  But I’d sure rather that than the [Your Pillow Guy / I Alone Can Fix It] team at the helm.

I was […]

Bloomberg’s Matthew Winker last month — four minutes.

Fareed Zakaria yesterday — five minutes.

We ARE great again,

Summarized by a friend:

Those we honor today — like my mother’s brother, shot down over the Pacific — died fighting white supremacy in the Civil War and fascism in the Second World War; for […]

Whether it concerns an error message, a health issue, or food (“Alexa: can you freeze cheese?”), many of us don’t ask for help as often as we should.

Now comes AI and it’s even crazier not to ask for help.

For years I’ve known there must be some way to save frequently-used blocks of text.  […]

Not ALL guns — just new sales of military-grade weapons.

Also: sales of any guns without a background check.

And can we give states, cities, and towns the right impose their own local regulations as they did in the Wild West?

Are you really going to tell me the Wild West was somehow […]

(Other than repealing it altogether, of course, as one of your fellow readers, Paul deLespinasse in both Newsmax and the LA Progressive.)

Robert Reich: “Biden should IGNORE the debt ceiling: Don’t declare an X-date. Keep paying the bills. Don’t default.  If McCarthy and House Republicans don’t like it, let them take him […]

Building on Thursday’s Building Back Better BONUS . . . one of you sent me these bullet points from last fall:

A 2021 UC Merced study found that covering all 4,000 miles of California’s [irrigation] canals [with solar panels] could save 63 billion gallons of water annually, or enough for around 2 million people’s […]

Trump famously called Putin a ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for his Ukraine invasion . . . famously sided with Putin over the FBI . . . famously changed just one thing in the Republican platform, its support for Ukraine . . . famously held back Congressionally mandated aid to get Zelensky to […]

It turned out “he alone” could not fix it.

(How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became A Long-Running Joke)

It’s his successor, the guy who beat him, who got an infrastructure bill passed.

His successor, Joe Biden, we have to thank.

Decades overdue, the work has finally begun:

Click to see the big projects.

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